Combined dumb-bell



(No Model.)

L W WOOSTERA GOMBINBB BBMB BBLL, CLUB, ANB BXBBGISLNG BBVIGB. No. 506,894.

Patented Oct. 17, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUCIUS W. VVOOSTER, rOF GIBBSBOROUGH, NEV JERSEY.

COMBINED DUMBFBELL, CLUB, AND EXERCISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,894, dated October 17, 1893.

Application filed December 3, 1892. Serial No. 453,967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: spring unwinds, or vice versa, thus providing Be it known that I, LUCIUS W. WOOSTER, a convenient and effective exercising device. a citizen of the United States, residing at Each head may be provided with a spring Gibbsborough,in thecountyof Camden,State and operative parts, but when desired the 5 of New Jersey, have invented a new and usesame may be removed, and each head sup- 55 ful Improvement in a Combined Dumb-Bell, plied with rings G, thus weighting said head, Club, and Exercising Device, which improvethe number of rings employed being in acment is fully set forth in the following specicordance with the adjusted Weight that it is iication and accompanying drawings. desired to impart to the dumb bell. When 1o My invention consists iirst of a dumb bell the dumb bell as such is to be used, the han- 6o having a hollow head which contains a spring die E is removed, but when said handle is apfor exercising purposes, means in the head plied to one of the heads, as shown in Fig. l, whereby the bell may be adjustably weighted, it is evident I produce a club of the order of a novel connected handle, and means for prean Indian club for exercising purposes, the 15 venting crushing-in of the head. dumb bell constituting the head of the club. 65

Figure l represents a partial longitudinal The heads are hollow as has been stated, section of a combined dumb bell, club and and they are fitted together on their periphexercising device embodying my invention. eries, where one section is provided with a Figs. 2 and 3 represent transverse sections tongue Q, which enters a groove in the other 2o thereof, respectively on lines fr, and y, y, section,thus interlocking the sections at their 7o Fig. l. peripheries and preventing rotation of the Similar letters of reference indicate corresame, while their separation is prevented by spohding parts in the several figures. the rod D. When the nut D is unscrewed, Referring to the drawings: Adesignates a the sections of the heads may be separated 25 dumb bell formed of the hollow heads B, B, and access had to the interior of the same for 75 and the connecting grip or handle C. removal or application of the spring or weight D designates a rod which is passed through in either head or both heads as desired or rethe headsB and handle C, and has on one end quired. A washer R is interposed between the nut D', and on the other end the handle the hub .I of the spring-containing box H, and 3o E. Within the heads are the sleeves F, the adjacent wall of the head B, so that the 8o through which the rodD extends, said sleeves box is set out from the latter. being encircled by either the concentric ri-ngs When the handle E is removed,a nut may G or the box H, the latter having its hubJ on be substituted therefor, so that the rod is rethe reduced portion K of the sleeve, said box tained in position for connecting the parts of 3 5 containinga coiled spring I., one end of which the dumb bell. g5 is secured to the sleeve F, and the other end Having thus described myinvention, what to the periphery of the box, it being noticed I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters that as the nut D is tightened, the sleeve is Patent, is pressed firmly against the opposite side of the 1. A combined dumb bell and exercising 4o head B, and thus held immovable, the sleeves device consisting of a dumb bell having a grip 90 furthermore preventing crushing-in of the between the heads thereof one head being heads, especially at the centers thereof. Euhollow and having a sleeve therein, a rod circling the box H is a strap or cord M, one passing through said sleeve and head, a box end of which passes through an openingN in on said head, a spring connected with said 45 the periphery of the head, and has an eye or sleeve and box, a cord around said box pass- 9 5 ring P connected with it, whereby it may be ing through an opening 1n said head, and an connected with a wall, ceiling, &c., and when eye on the outer end of said cord, said parts the dumb bell is grasped and drawn back, the being combined substantially as described. spring may be wound up, and as the dumb 2. A dumbbellhavingahollow head formed 5o bell is moved toward the wall, ceiling, &:c., the in sections, a sleeve in said head, and a conroo a spring connected with said sleeve and bex,y

a cord around said box, a rod passing through the heads, the grip and sleeve, and a handle r 5 connected with the projecting end of the rod, thus coupling the sections of the head and grip and attaching the handle to one of the heads, the. sleeve preventing crushing in of the sectional head when the parts are coupled, zo all substantially as described.

LUCIUS W. WOOSTER.

Witnesses:

HOWARD PARKER, CLIFFORD T. WILSON. 

